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"I never knew anyone except Ethan could be so kind. And and, will you tell Father and Mother?" "Yes." I winced, though, at that prospect. "Give me that little bag you carry on your wrist." She obeyed, wide-eyed. "You do tote a powder-puff. I did not know whether Aunt Caroline permitted it. Rub it on your nose," I advised, passing the bit of fluff to her.
Incapable of further resistance, feeling herself a helpless victim in the hands of irrevocable Fate, Laura followed docilely to the dresser, where Elfie took the powder-puff and powdered her face. This done, she daubed her cheeks with the rouge-paw and pencilled her lips and eyebrows.
He got the scent easily enough, and then inquired for a powder-puff. In the old days he would scarcely have dared; but he had been in France. He selected a little French box with a mirror in the lid and a pretty rosebud pattern, and paid for it unblushingly. Then he returned. He opened the door of their sitting-room, and stood transfixed for a minute.
In youth her cheeks had been of cream and roses, but they were mottled now by middle-age, and again that hard, ugly directness came into her eyes as she dabbed a powder-puff across her forehead. Quickly, not to lose the effect, she grasped her skirts strongly in both hands, and went downstairs. She had been hoping for this visit for some time past.
Then I opened my powder-box, and put out the powder-puff, put my fine towels over the water-jug, and placed a piece of new soap near the basin. She watched my movements with a vexed look in her wide open eyes, without appearing either astonished or satisfied at my forethought. "Here is all that you require," I then said; "I will tell you when supper is ready."
A damp waterproof, shawl, and open newspaper were lying across the once brilliant sofa; a powder-puff, a plate of fruit, and a play-book were on the centre table, and on the marble-topped sideboard was Mr. Hooker's second-best hat, with a soiled collar, evidently but lately exchanged for the one he had on, peeping over its brim.
"My dear child," she protested, "why? He seems to me quite a personable young man, and he may be useful! Who can tell?" Louise shrugged her shoulders. She stood waiting while the Baroness made somewhat extensive use of her powder-puff. "You forget," she said quietly, "that I am already in Mr. Wrayson's debt pretty heavily." The Baroness looked quickly around.
Brammle came in sniffing, and Kirby cursed him through tight lips with words that were no less fervent for lack of being heard. "Hallo! Burning love-letters? The whole mess is doin' the same thing. Haven't had time to burn mine yet was busy sorting things over when you called. Look here!" He opened the front of his mess-jacket and produced a little lace handkerchief, a glove and a powder-puff.
It seemed improbable that she had a given name, a lover, a powder-puff, or a digestion. She was so impersonal, this slight, pale, industrious Swede, that it was vulgar to think of her as going to an ordinary home to eat hash. She was a perfectly oiled and enameled machine, and she ought, each evening, to have been dusted off and shut in her desk beside her too-slim, too-frail pencil points.
And yes, of course, vanity cases and powder-puff bags and mirrors and perfumes, oh, all sorts of foolishnesses that are pretty." "I know," said Elise, nodding her head. "And we'll have an artificial flower booth, that's right in line. And people love to buy 'em, I do." "And laces," said Patty; "and embroidered boudoir pillows, and oh, and baby things!
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